What's Your Story?

Overview

What's Melbourne's nightlife culture like for you? That's the question that VicHealth addressed to over 150 locals across the streets of Southbank, St Kilda and Prahran. Those answers have been transformed into three interactive light installations for What's Your Story? — a project which seeks to understand the drinking culture among young people and to change any risky behaviour associated with it.

The two-year-long project explored the social norms and expectations of Melbourne's 18 to 24-year-olds. Through the conversations based on their most memorable nightlife experiences, three central narratives emerged. And now, poignant quotes from those interviews form the basis for the large-scale, colourful lighting displays, designed by creative studio John Fish.

The first of the three installations, Music Is All I Need, uses 1600 LED pixel tubes in a double semi-circle signboard. The second, Savour it, Remember it, is an interactive LED dancefloor and stage, which visitors can be photographed on. The third, Drinking Isn't Centre Stage, displays nine mirrored pillars, among which visitors can take selfies.

These roaming installations will take over four entertainment precincts — namely St Kilda's Acland Plaza, Prahran's Grattan Gardens Plaza and Southbank's Queensbridge Square and Southbank Spillway — on three consecutive Fridays, spanning February 15, 22 and March 1. For the full schedule, head this way.

What's Your Story? is in partnership with City of Port Phillip, City of Stonnington and City of Melbourne, plus research body Turning Point and social enterprise Humankind Enterprises. 

Image: David Hannah